Oye como va! : hybridity and identity in Latino popular music / Deborah Pacini Hernandez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pacini Hernandez, Deborah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic Americans--Music--Social aspects.

Hispanic Americans.

Popular music--Social aspects--United States.

Popular music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Listen Up! When the New York-born Tito Puente composed ""Oye Como Va!"" in the 1960's, his popular song was called ""Latin"" even though it was a fusion of Afro-Cuban and New York Latino musical influences. A decade later, Carlos Santana, a Mexican immigrant, blended Puente's tune with rock and roll, which brought it to the attention of national audiences. Like Puente and Santana, Latino/a musicians have always blended musics from their homelands with other sounds in our multicultural society, challenging ideas of what ""Latin"" music is or ought to be. Waves of immigrants...

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: Hybridity, Identity, and Latino Popular Music; 2 Historical Perspectives on Latinos and the Latin Music Industry; 3 To Rock or Not to Rock: Cultural Nationalism and Latino Engagement with Rock 'n' Roll; 4 Turning the Tables: Musical Mixings, Border Crossings, and New Sonic Circuitries; 5 New Immigrants, New Layerings: Tradition and Transnationalism in U.S. Dominican Popular Music; 6 From Cumbia Colombiana to Cumbia Cosmopolatina: Roots, Routes, Race, and Mestizaje; 7 Marketing Latinidad in a Global Era; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612505911

9781282505919

1282505912

9781439900918

1439900914

OCLC:

607553992

Publisher Number:

heb40328 hdl